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No shelter for Britain in European halfway houses
This week, the Centre for European Reform produced a report on the economic consequences of leaving the EU. (I was a member of the commission that produced this report.) Its conclusion is stark: all conceivable halfway houses would deliver the lack of influence that comes from being outside the EU with the lack of independence from being inside it. “In” or “out” is the choice: of the two, the first would be vastly better.